Ensuring that every child in Tompkins County gets a toy for the holidays is a year-round effort for the large group of volunteers who are the force behind Cops, Kids and Toys. (Dec. 15, 2008)
Cornell University appointed the principal officers for eCornell, the university's new distance learning subsidiary, according to an announcement by Peter C. Meinig, chairman of the board of directors of eCornell.
Susan Murphy, vice president for student and academic services, expressed the university's condolences on the deaths of Clayton DeFisher and Adam Frey during the university's winter break.
Excessive noise, such as jet aircraft flying overhead, impairs children's reading ability and long-term memory, a Cornell University environmental psychologist and his European colleagues conclude in a study of schoolchildren living near airports. "This is the first long-term study of the same children before and after airports near them opened and closed. It nails down that it is almost certain that noise is causing the differences in children's ability to learn to read," says Gary Evans, an international expert on environmental stress, such as noise, crowding and air pollution. (October 7, 2002)
Anthropology professor Rebekah Nathan enrolled as a freshman at her own university, immersing herself in student life. The resulting book, 'My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student.'
Nell I. Mondy, 83, professor emerita of nutritional sciences at Cornell, died Aug. 25 at Cayuga Medical Center. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m., Sept. 17, at the First Baptist Church.
Workers who used computer software to remind occasionally them to assume good posture, take short breaks and occasionally stretch do more accurate work and as a result are more productive, according to a new Cornell study.
Cornell Cinema will host three documentary filmmakers March 10-12 to present their "real world work" on war in Darfur, on a landmark American hate crime and on the history of the African diaspora. All screenings are in Willard…
It's a student takeover of the most welcome variety -- the annual fete called Hotel Ezra Cornell on the Cornell campus. On Friday, April 20, Statler Hotel managers will hand over the ceremonial key to the on-campus facility to directors, and for the rest of the weekend all hotel services and events will be handled by more than 400 student.